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Submitted to Contest #296
Her morning began with a blow to the eye, delivered by her son’s cute heel. That wasn’t unusual, but it hurt a lot. She went to apply ice. On her hip the little one tried to tear her hair out.She looked at the talisman on the wall. It appeared scorched. She sighed - it meant it was wasted, because it caught too many immaterial entities. Someone had been watching a chain of nightmares. Could be her.Her husband asked her when breakfast was. She mumbled something, hiding her irritation and starting the kitchen routine awkwardly. Left hand - son...
Submitted to Contest #295
Her name was Olga and all her family was into historical studies. Her father was an archeologist stationed in the Jubilee system, researching the protobiogenesis of the third planet in there for the last few years. Her mother was a xenoethnologist, specializing in mono-theistic societies. Her grandma was a protolinguist and her current obsession might be called “Babushkas”, because she suddenly was finding herself severely into chastushki short songs, printing contemporized nesting dolls and wearing obnoxiously red headdresses she called “pl...
Submitted to Contest #286
Every year there was a big gathering at the Saint Mary’s Cemetery. A positively unlikely event, considering it wasn’t a funeral. They paid the gazebo rent quite a good penny so the attendant didn’t mind them.This year they were the most numerous, twenty people and counting. One of them brought a suitcase, which pinged at the metal detector frame. The man was sturdy and business-looking, so the sudden scare seemed to make him look boyish and younger than he probably was. They were all of a certain age, when people normally lose their connecti...
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